Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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intransitive covenant
A covenant whose performance does not pass from the original covenantor to the covenantor's representatives. Cf. transitive covenant.
transitive covenant
A covenant whose duty of performance passes from the original covenantor to the covenantor's representatives. Cf. intransitive covenant. 2. TREATY. 3. A common-law action to recover damages for breach of contract under seal. 4. A promise made in a deed or implied by law; esp., an obligation in a deed burdening or favoring a landowner. "A covenant is properly defined as a promise made in deed, although in practice the term is used rather more loosely to mean simply an obligation affecting a landowner whether created by deed or not." Peter Butt, Land Law 334-35 (2d ed. 1988). "In their nature, covenants are first cousins to easements appurtenant. The burdened land corresponds to a servient tenement, the benefitted land, to a dominant tenement. In concept, the main difference between easements and covenants is that, whereas an easement allows its holder to go upon and to do something upon the servient tenement, the beneficiary of a covenant may not enter the burdened land, but may require the owner of that land to do, or more likely not to do, something on that land." Roger A. Cunningham et al., The Law o/' Property ยง 8.13, at 467 (2d ed. 1993).